June 27 Photo Brief: The hot toys for Christmas, keeping vigil for Nelson Mandela and a zoo birthday bash

A toy store in Britain displays all the hot toys for Christmas 2013, well-wishers keep vigil outside the hospital where Nelson Mandel is being treated, the Singapore zoo holds a 40th birthday bash and more in today’s daily brief.

Children prepare backstage ahead of the zoo birthday bash celebration at the Singapore Zoo in Singapore. Home to more than 2,800 animal specimens from over 300 species, 26% of which are threatened, the zoo has attained a strong reputation internationally for its conservation initiatives and breeding programs. The zoo celebrates its 40th anniversary. (Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images)

People take photos of the polar bear, ‘Inuka’ in the frozen tundra enclosure at the Singapore Zoo in Singapore. (Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images)

Ball boys and ball girls line up to enter a court on day four of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London, England. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Ninetly-five children release 95 balloons after praying for former President Nelson Mandela to mark the upcoming of his 95th birthday outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where Mandela is being treated for a recurring lung infection in Pretoria, South Africa. Family members and President Jacob Zuma have visited Mandela in the hospital today. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Tristan, aged 2, holds a ‘Nerf Rapidstrike CS-18′ toy gun in Hamleys toy shop in London, England. The gun, which retails for 50 GBP and has a range of 75 feet, is included in Hamleys’ predictions for the top selling toys for Christmas 2013. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

A woman walks trough haze as a forrest fire burns bushes and fields in Siak Regency, Riau Province, Indonesia. The fires on Sumatra have caused record smog in Malaysia and Singapore. Sumatra has stepped up efforts to fight the fires to relieve the conditions. Eight farmers have been arrested for setting the fires on Sumatra Island. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)

Team Emirates sails their AC-72 Racing Yacht by the Golden Gate Bridge as they test out the course in preparation for the upcoming America’s Cup competition on the San Francisco Bay in San Francisco, California. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)

A man jumps to avoid a molotov cocktail thrown at riot police by students during a protest to demand Chilean President Sebastian Pinera’s government to improve the public education quality, in Santiago. (Martin Bernett/Getty images)

A train passes through a food market in Maeklong, some 60 kilometers south-west of Bangkok. Several times a day, shopkeepers swiftly pack up their food stalls and pull back their canopies to let the trains pass. Once the trains have rumbled through, the crates of vegetables, fish and eggs, are heaved back into their position along the tracks and shoppers return to the tracks they use as a path through the market. (Christophe Archambault/Getty images)

Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj waves to people on Sukhbaatar Square in Ulan Bator. Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj won a second term, according to preliminary results defeating a wrestling champion and the country’s first woman presidential contender in an election dominated by a debate over mining wealth. (Byambasuren Byamba-Ochir/Getty Images)

Supporters of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender groups dressed in weddings gowns sit on a huge rainbow banner at the University of the Philippines (UP) campus in Manila as they celebrate Pride Month. (Noel Celis/Getty Images)

Dustin poses next to an art work depicting a tiger and created in a special 3D-technique by a Chinese-Korean artist group at the exhibition “Du bist die Kunst!” (You are the Art!) at Augustusburg Palace in Augustusburg near Chemnitz, eastern Germany. (Hendrik Schmidt/Getty images)

A festival goers walks around the site on the second day of the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts near Glastonbury, southwest England. The festival attracts 170,000 party-goers to the dairy farm in Somerset, and this year’s tickets sold out within two hours of going on sale. The Rolling Stones will perform at the festival for the first time, headlining on Saturday night. (Andrew Cowie/Getty images)

Kosovo Police splashed with paint clash with demonstrators in Pristina during a protest against the ratification of the agreement with Serbia in front of the Assembly and the Government of Kosovo. (Armend Nimani/Getty Images)

Syrians walk down a destroyed street in the centre of Syria’s northeastern city of Deir Ezzor. More than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria’s uprising, a watchdog said, as a proposed Geneva peace conference looked set to be delayed, dimming hopes for an end to the bloodshed. (Ahmad Aboud/Getty images)

Demonstrators run as riot police fire tear gas during clashes at a protest on the streets of Belo Horizonte. Tens of thousands of Brazilians have taken to the streets this month in the biggest protests in 20 years, fueled by an array of grievances ranging from poor public services to the high cost of World Cup soccer stadiums and corruption. (Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters photo)

Insects and birds fly in a dump yard as a rag picker collects scraps in New Delhi. (Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters photo)

An Israeli soldier of the paratrooper brigade covers his face with a kippah, or skullcap, as he takes a break during a march near Jerusalem, marking the completion of their advanced training, at the end of which they receive their red paratrooper beret. (Amir Cohen/Reuters photo)

Wellwishers hold candles as they gather in support of ailing former South African President Nelson Mandela outside the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital where he is being treated in Pretoria. (Dylan Martinez/Reuters photo)

The bright light of a solar flare on the left side of the sun and an eruption of solar material shooting through the sun’s atmosphere, called a prominence eruption, are seen in this NASA handout image. (NASA)

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